Wow - THANK YOU for your post!! I was upgrading my Acer 9300 from XP to Vista and about half way through it said my BIOS was needed to be upgraded, so I went to the Acer support site and downloaded the newest BIOS, ran the install exactly as instructions, but when the system went into reboot, it would not restart. I was sure the BIOS upgrade went sour. Tried everything I could find online, but nothing worked. Then I found your post this morning and thought - I have 4GB RAM also - surely it couldn't be that simple??? Well, I reinstalled my old RAM modules, 512MB x 2 for the original 1GB of RAM, and presto - the system restarted like nothing was wrong! Now I have to figure out how to increase the memory over the 1GB for Vista.

Thanks again!

LeeZerocool411,

Wow - THANK YOU for your post!! I was upgrading my Acer 9300 from XP to Vista and about half way through it said my BIOS was needed to be upgraded, so I went to the Acer support site and downloaded the newest BIOS, ran the install exactly as instructions, but when the system went into reboot, it would not restart. I was sure the BIOS upgrade went sour. Tried everything I could find online, but nothing worked. Then I found your post this morning and thought - I have 4GB RAM also - surely it couldn't be that simple??? Well, I reinstalled my old RAM modules, 512MB x 2 for the original 1GB of RAM, and presto - the system restarted like nothing was wrong! Now I have to figure out how to increase the memory over the 1GB for Vista.

Thanks again!

Lee

AnonymousMay 02, 2009

I have the same problems, no boot or bios and black display, just power-light and HD light are on. Is the vga-inverter dead?

Ritser I have the same problems, no boot or bios and black display, just power-light and HD light are on. Is the vga-inverter dead?

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Hi!
I have the same problem, and my problem was that I have installed 4GB ram and that ram modules wasn't accepted with the new bios. So I installed the old modules and it all worked again, downgraded the bios to one version older and installed my 4GB ram modules and it all worked.

I have acer aspire 9300, the first time it went to black screen i tried all my posible means but i couldn't. then i gave it to my friend for try. he did it by heating the vga chip with a dryer followed by power up with the adopter then connect the battery 3x whiles the machine light is on. power off connect your battery, note: when it happens again remove the battery and power on with the adapter if not 1. power on without ram and battery then 2. connect ram and power on; All is well for u

Hi...
Same exact issue... Customer brought in thier computer and said his son was on it and it just went black... However I believe it was not booting up after they did updates to is to include the bios. I tried the suggested above and put in some old 512 ram and bingo we screen again. Kudos to ACER on thier bios upgrade ;)

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Just go to the acer website and http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_one_150.html and d/load the bios update 3309, open the folder and copy two files to a formatted fat usb stick. Rename the file FLASHIT to FLASHIT.EXE and the second file 3309.fd(bios file) to ZG5IA32.FD rename them precisely like that, please check your spelling is correct. Insert the usb stick into the usb left hand side make sure the charger is plugged in . Hold down keys fn+esc and power up the laptop, when the power led begins to blink release the two buttons and press the power button just once, observe the usb stick flashing indicating it's flashing the bios, please note this can take a few attempts, I once struggled for a few hours until I finally tamed the beast :) be patient okay, I would like to point out if you wish to update within winxp use the same bios update 3309 , extract the zipped files to a formatted usb stick and rename the two files again but DO NOT REMOVE or interfere with the other files in the folder , with the laptop up and running open the folder and click on the Insysdeflash file only within the winflash file, this will flash your bios within windows and update it to the latest version, I read that flashing it when using the fn+esc keys merely restores the bios , I have tested this and mine updated to 3309 only when I flashed my bios within windows using the complete d/loaded bios update as mentioned . It will be worth reading the read me file to see what has changed in this bios version, I can tell you that for those out there that have password issues i.e. hdd set, the need to enter password with upper case is not a requirement more and there are a lot more fixes too, enjoy and I hope this bit of info was useful:)

Your not alone in this type of problem. When it comes to computer (laptop especially) they usually have a "Max allowed ram" most times its listed in the back of the manual in small print. Its a way to keep people buying new computers (if your into the conspiracy theories)Chances are even a bios upgrade would not fix your problem. Mostly BIOS upgrades add support for new boot options, plug and play support, and fixes to bugs in older versions.

You can check aspires/acers website for updates www.acer.comIf they have an update it will comes with documentation as to what the update does.

You will need winzip or winrar to open the zip file just google either if you dont have them you can get them for free.

You then need to open the folder you just uncompressed and you will see another zip file, winflash is in there. it will allow you to flash the bios from within windows, just install it and follow the instructions on your screen